garline14

I don't know if this has been posted, or if you guys saw this already, but I thought it was pretty cool. The Greenville police department of north Carolina seized the car during a drug investigation and decided they can use it. And yea, I bet they are fighting over them keys!! Haha

Here is the vid

jcgunn

Excellent. However, I have read that "You can't outrun Motorola..." Just sayin'

Vetteman Jack

That reporter has some facts a little off - unless that car has had some extensive mods done to it, it's not going to hit 200 mph.

Still, pretty cool use for a drug confiscation car.

grantv

And, worth $50,000??

Scn1998

Lol maybe when it was new.... I think I remember the same deal when the police in CA got a ZR-1 added to their fleet. I thought that was pretty sweet as well.

roadbike56

Wow, that brings back memories. I used to live in Greenville when I worked for Burroughs Wellcome, back when I still had my 69 Vert. Enjoyed many a East Carolina football game.
As for re-purposing drug cars in NC, Apex did that with at least two cars, one was a Plymouth Prowler, but that was more for show like the Greenville Corvette. The other is a Mustang GT. That one was pressed into regular traffic control service, very effective.
The state used a pimped out Mercury Grand Marquis to patrol US 1 between Raleigh and Sanford for a while.
Getting back to Greenville, all I can say is GO PIRATES!!!!

roadbike56

LOL, I didn't react because the network news not having their facts straight in Greenville is pretty much to be expected. But they try real hard .

cor28vettes

Media failed to verify the 50K as actually being MSRP and failed @ top-end speed reporting.

First rule in media reporting: U always verify your sources. Had they been told this will run like a new Ferrari they likely would have reported it as fact.

01Z w/o options/destination... 47500
03Z w/o options/dest 51420
03Z option total 445
03 destination 670

Black 02

It says 200mph on the dash. That means it will go 200!!!

Piper5314

That's cool.......I'm from West TN, and some years back, Shelby County Sheriffs Dept had a corvette by way of the same deal. Later, they also had a Pro Stock Corvette race car they had painted up like a squad car, and they would take it to different events and to schools during show and tell.

memmer

In Portland a few years back the state police had a Corvette with a light bar on the top that they would park on the hiway to the coast.It did a great job of slowing traffic down.
Fred

scarecrowkc5

No police department should ever get to keep stuff like that.

TiptronicSoldier

The can confiscate property or money in an arrest for their use if the defendant is guilty or not according to a news story I read last week. Some cops in Oklahoma were using money to pay for rent etc. I think it's fine for them to put stuff to good use but maybe hold it until found guilty.

CalF

Wait till the column locks and the bad guys get away.High speed pursuit and a valve spring breaks.Rainstorm and water leaks in.Clutch pedal sticks to floor etc.They already said it has maintenance issues.Goofy cop needs to get a better job if as he claims,he can not afford a 12 year old used Vette worth about 20k.The video was comical as to how uninformed the media is.The cop leads folks to believe criminals buy Vettes and he wants to take them away.

garline14

Yea I have no problem with them using a car such as a Corvette and painting it like a police car and then bringing it to events and what not. I don't think a C5 Z06 or any Corvette for that matter, should not be used as an everyday police vehicle though.

scarecrowkc5

I hope they blow the motor up.

roadbike56

OOPS wrong thread. Sorry

laurent_zo6

Cheesecake 07

Dope trafficking cars can be kept(community building tactic like this) but are usually sold at auction. Even money lawfully confiscated out of dope vehicles/houses/persons can be kept in a general fund...but ultimately both end up being used to house, feed, provide medical care to, prosecute and "rehabilitate"(i.e. Free education) these dueshbags.

Pay officers rent, phone bills, taco bell runs? Come on guy...everything you read on the internet isn't a fact.

They dont lose property/money until conviction...if not convicted they get it back. Well of course thats if those rotten, corvette hating, scumbag cops that try to keep felons out of your neighborhood...didnt use it all up on rent.

Martinez310

that funny made my day